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Understanding the Reverse Side of the Flight to Quality
Posted May 2, 2015 by Martin Armstrong
QUESTION: I’m having trouble reconciling your call between the next downturn (due to start in 2015.75 and your call on the Dow potentially doubling or more. [...]
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Creating Market Depth: The First Step in Creating an Economy
Posted Apr 27, 2015 by Martin Armstrong
Exchange at Amsterdam Some people have difficulty rationalizing selling something they do not yet have. Of course, nobody complains when they buy contracts in the [...]
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Fractional Banking v Matched Funding
Posted Apr 21, 2015 by Martin Armstrong
Banking has existed from the earliest of times and has taken many forms from safe deposit storage, money changers, merchants with the ability to move money [...]
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26-Year-Old Exposes Fraud of Piketty
Posted Apr 15, 2015 by Martin Armstrong
A year ago, Thomas Piketty, 43, was the most sought after economist of his generation. With weighty arguments about capitalism’s increasingly unequal income [...]
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